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Sponsored Search Ad Remover
Downloads Search engine users are being flooded with sponsored search ads. This tool gives you the choice to view the search results without the sponsored search ads and thus reduces the visual clutter, so that you can find relevant information more quickly.
[March 1, 2006, 6:53]
SuSE Linux to get ad-sponsored Opera
News SuSE has announced that it will include an ad-sponsored version of the Opera Web browser in the next distribution of its Linux desktop software. Extending its strategy to focus on niche segments of the browser market, this is the first deal of its...
[July 4, 2002, 9:02]
McAfee: beware sponsored search results
News In the worst cases, users who click on malicious sponsored links risk having their machines compromised by hackers. Sponsored links were found to be particularly dangerous, and were up to four times as likely to be dangerous.
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
Another MS Sponsored Story ?
Talkback If you read the comment, I quite clearly say that I have not benefited from the sudden upswing in Linux training as, this time, I'm not doing any myself. This comes from colleagues who are now desperately trying to find qualified trainers because...
[November 6, 2008, 13:57]
Poor telecoms regulation 'costing UK Ł20bn'
Talkback It's funny how sponored research always comes up with results that favor the company that sponsored the research. Reminds me of all these Microsoft sponsored research studies which somehow say paying extortionate amounts for monopolitically...
[January 15, 2004, 16:13]
The business of Linux in China
News At LinuxWorld last week in Boston, representatives from a Chinese government-sponsored organisation enthusiastically handed out bags proudly emblazoned with "Beijing: Asia's Linux Capital". ZDNet UK also interviewed Qinghua Hu, the general director...
[April 11, 2006, 17:55]
Microsoft to power Facebook search ads
News In the coming months, Facebook will begin powering its web search and related sponsored text links with Microsoft's technology, in an expansion of a strategic relationship between the two companies. Microsoft rival Google provides search and...
[July 25, 2008, 10:59]
Yahoo! adopts paid search listings
News tested the waters of sponsored links by selling placement for select advertisers at the top of commercial category pages. said on Tuesday that it has partnered with for-fee search service Overture to add sponsored links to its directory, in a move...
[November 14, 2001, 15:24]
BSA figures do not add up
Talkback It is a little known fact that EU politicians can get sponsored every word and every opinion they voice within the EU democracy by means of corporate sponsored opinion makers. Just an obviously sponsored and coached one who for that very same...
[June 25, 2005, 0:30]
Google starts new chapter with Amazon
News Google plans to provide search services and sponsored links to Amazon.com under a multiyear deal the companies announced on Thursday. Sponsored links from Google are available now on a selection of Amazon pages.
[April 3, 2003, 15:56]
IBM reports claim Linux savings
News Two IBM-sponsored reports published this week have found that Linux is cheaper to deploy and operate than Windows. The second report sponsored by IBM - Beyond TCO - The Unanticipated Second Stage Benefits Of Linux - claims there are "second stage...
[September 1, 2005, 17:45]
EBay clamps down on use of its name
News Auction giant eBay has moved to block Google advertisers from using its trademark in sponsored search results that appear on Google and across the Web. Google, which declined to comment for this story, lets advertisers bid for placement in...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
UK target for 'large number' of cyberattacks
News The government has said it is engaged in tackling ongoing state-sponsored cyberattacks on UK national infrastructure. He said: "It ranges from individual hackers right through to state-sponsored issues.
[June 17, 2008, 9:47]
All at sea: Challenge race asks tough IT questions
News A round-the-world yacht race sponsored by BT, with boats sponsored by companies like Toshiba, 3Com, Concert (BT plus MCI) and BT Global Teamwork -- yes, and even a Web site to match -- you can tell what's coming next, can't you?
[August 29, 1996, 9:20]
NBC signs up Overture
News Television network NBC on Monday is expected to announce a two-year partnership with Overture Services for sponsored search, becoming the latest Web publisher to lace query results with ads. Under its Overture deal, NBC will display the company's...
[November 10, 2003, 11:25]
EU-wide patents 'move closer'
Talkback With EU wide (software) patent legislation it'll be a matter of time before well sponsored lobbiest and laywers will start exploiting loopholes in the weakest links of the chain they can find. What the EU should do is to ban software patents all...
[May 9, 2006, 22:22]
Munich's Linux plans attract international attention
Talkback The Munich change-over project has attracted critisism (escpecially but not surprisingly from Microsoft sponsored media) due to the so-far small probelms they have had on the way. The Microsoft media however seem to overlook this, and produce...
[October 27, 2004, 13:51]
Search payments cause a wave of concern for surfers
News The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be able to tell when search results are advertiser-sponsored, thanks to sometimes-unclear disclosure on the part of search companies.
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
SDMI hack popular despite Linux boycott
News A threatened Linux community boycott doesn't seem to be putting a chill on a hacking challenge sponsored by the music industry. Linux Journal technology editor Don Marti sponsored a boycott of the event, saying that the music industry is using...
[September 19, 2000, 13:18]
Bankers borrow from industrialists
Blog On 4 May 2007 Barclays Wealth won an award for Financial Services Operational Excellence - at the Six Sigma IQ Awards sponsored by Venturehaus. Six Sigma developed by Motorola and famously sponsored by Jack Welsh at GE has been used by ABN AMRO to...
[March 17, 2008, 13:54]
